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‘A year after the group's last strategic overhaul, the plan appears to be another attempt to turn around the newspapers.’

‘Downing Street denies the allegation, but the tenor and content of the chatter in the days leading up to their departure reveal some form of strategic plan directed towards engineering a tangible return from the visit.’

‘They became too much an organ of the Nazi Party and were used more for its own ends than to help fulfil strategic military objectives.’

‘The change is not in profitability, the change is in the mutual long-term strategic interests of the United States and Pakistan.’

‘This raises the question as to whether we in Australia is applying our limited resources in our best long-term strategic interests.’

‘According to Shimizu, Japan set up a Japanese Legation in Baghdad in 1939, for political and strategic purposes, as part of its Islamic policy.’

‘What we need today is a leadership that is able to identify India's strategic interests clearly and tries to achieve them by navigating skillfully through these turbulent times.’

‘Imperialism depended on dominating, humiliating and exploiting others, and on drawing artificial boundaries for European strategic purposes.’

‘Implicit in his argument is the belief that American foreign policy flows from strategic considerations of national interest.’

‘Commanders need a plan, a tactical set of readiness indicators pointed toward achieving an overall strategic state of readiness.’

‘It would also be in the nation's long-term strategic interests.’

‘No longer would the Fort Limhi serve as a strategic location in Young's plan of last resort.’

‘In the 15th century artillery emerged as a strategic weapons system.’

‘The militants intend to take further advantage of a wider information operations campaign as a strategic weapon.’

‘It is a 1, 000-year-old state with its own long-term strategic interests.’

‘It means achieving the strategic goals for which we've gone to war in the first place.’

‘The French government's motives are bound up with the defence of its own diplomatic and strategic interests.’

‘The Soviets achieve a long-desired southern strategic goal, isolating Turkey, opening a route to the Indian Ocean and the Eastern Mediterranean.’

‘This is difficult to judge because diplomatic and strategic considerations are involved.’

‘The cynical exploitation of international conflicts to wage war to achieve such a crass strategic end is what makes this war so immoral.’

‘It is extremely difficult to merge companies in general, but even more so companies that have been from their birth so identified with strategic national interests.’

2.1(of human or material resources) essential in fighting a war.

‘a large strategic air force’

‘Is it feasible for a country like Namibia to procure a national strategic resource like petroleum from a single source?’

‘Secondly, the US's determination to control the world's most strategic resources will lead to further invasions and occupations.’

‘This is a priceless strategic resource, and the Army's major contribution today to the formulation of national strategy.’

‘I found that Michael Klare has written an uneven but topical text on strategic resources.’

‘So issues such as occupation, control over strategic resources and imperialism are never brought up.’

‘The objectives pursued by the United States involved the preservation of its access to strategic resources and geographical position.’

‘The oil/gas recovery sector is also related to state security and involves strategic resources.’

‘Not satisfied with military and economic dominance, they want to extend their empire and control more strategic resources.’

‘When each failed to win control of the central state, the locus of conflict shifted to major strategic resources such as cities and ports, fragmenting the clan alliances.’

‘Europe cannot afford to allow an African head of state to make it look weak and foolish when the US is using its unparalleled military strength to stake a claim to strategic resources all over the world.’

‘Direct defense refers to the use of armed forces to thwart an adversary's attempt to capture or destroy possessions such as territory, population, and strategic resources.’

‘Being the most important strategic resource in the world, it will continue to be what shapes the future.’

‘For Japan, the South China Sea and the waters off Taiwan are vital for transporting oil and other important strategic resources.’

‘The key to this scheme for world hegemony is unchallenged rule over the Eurasian continent and control of its strategic resources, first and foremost, petroleum.’

‘This new relationship involves a direct exchange of strategic resources.’

‘The energy transportation systems of the Caspian region were originally designed and built to serve the strategic needs of the Soviet Union.’

‘The beginning of the Cold War intensified anxieties about the nation's supply of strategic resources.’

‘‘Water is a strategic resource which needs to be consumed, therefore we can not afford to lose a drop, we have to save water’, the mayor said.’

‘In future, foreign companies will be allowed only a minority holding in firms applying for licences to tap and extract strategic resources like oil and gas.’

‘Elite groups are engaged in an internecine struggle for control of the continent's strategic resources.’